If they don't get you one way...

They get you the next.
Following an ubergeek's instructions, I changed the settings on my laptop to quelch all firewall and virii infection protection.
Then, I reinstalled SP-2 for XP-Pro with all of my fingers crossed.
The first problem encountered was no USB connection for any of the devices.
I reinstall the drivers for the basic USB setup through the control panel
and everything came to life.
Then I tried to start Thingamablog, the new "toy" mentioned earlier. It froze dead.
The error pop-up said the database couldn't be found.
I went through all the changes in configuration I could muster.
Before contacting SourceForge, I even uninstalled and reinstalled it with a clean boot.
Nope, didn't work.
So here I am with all of this free time and I can't play with the new toy, WAAAAaaaAAAahhHHH!
Oh, well, I guess I am over that. There is nothing I can do until I hear back from SourceForge.
Now the hope is this will post through to blogger.com via w::bloggar.
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